<![CDATA[Jezebel: Monogamy]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Monogamy]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/monogamy http://jezebel.com/tag/monogamy <![CDATA[CDC Cracks Down On Our Slutty, Slutty Organs]]> New CDC organ donor guidelines could discourage many healthy people from donating — because they demand that any donor who's had two or more sex partners in the last year be designated "high-risk." More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5865443&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Monogamy: The Board Game!]]> "You may have to erotic dance in one of your first moves, but you make up the rules to your ultimate game. The point is, this board game gets couples talking again. When you're in a relationship for a while, lots of couples stop asking their partners even conversational questions, like how are you. This game reminds you that if you keep sharing your thoughts and experimenting with your erotic side, you can still get closer and maintain love." More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5821897&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How To Talk About Non-Monogamy Without Losing Your Mind]]> Discussions of infidelity tend to freak everybody out. But contrary to popular belief, it is possible to talk about monogamy, non-monogamy, sex, and cheating in a rational way. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5817190&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What Do You Mean You're Not Monogamous?]]> Random fact — I never dated until last year, at 22. It sounds weird because I'd been in relationships before, so I checked in with one of my best friends from college and asked her if I ever dated anyone. Sure you did, she said, you married him. Luls. Dating for the past year has taught me important things about what I need from people I get involved with- my first relationship post-marriage taught me that when things aren't working, sometimes trying to make it work is a waste of time, especially if you're not happy. I learnt that wanting to give someone their dream relationship doesn't work if that's not your idea of a dream relationship as well, and that adjusting your desires to fit what someone else wants is unfair to both people. Further down the line, I learnt from someone else that compatibility matters...especially when it comes to being monogamous or not. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5788799&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Everyone Is Cheating On Everyone]]> A recent Oregon State University study found that in 40% of heterosexual couples, one partner claimed that the coupling was monogamous while the other claimed that no such agreement existed. Marriage and children did not increase monogamy between couples. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5741013&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New Jersey Pastor Who Told Congregation that Facebook Encourages Adultery Has Had Himself Some Of That Adultery]]> Mmm. Adultery to the tune of a three-way relationship with his wife and another male employee of his church. And it goes down nice and smooth. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5695654&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Sensuality Of Celibacy]]> Author Helen Boyd, on how celibacy, monogamy and being picky (which can cause the other two) can be sexier (and more feminist) than actually doing it. [My Husband Betty, Image via Sarah G. on Flickr] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5666122&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Maybe Infidelity Isn't Such A Huge Deal]]> Women enjoy sex. Often, they like it as much as men do - if not more. As much as this seems obvious to us, this is still in many ways a radical statement. Just ask Holly Hill. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5604419&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Carla Bruni Flips The Script On Infidelity Rumors]]> Nicholas Sarkozy is making bizarre claims that "Anglo-Saxon financiers" are spreading rumors about his infidelity to destroy France, but the really unusual thing about the scandal is Carla Bruni's role in it. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5510615&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Genetic Testing Can Reveal Whether Or Not Your Guy Sucks]]> What if everything we've come to believe about the male brain is wrong? What it men are not, as conventional/casual wisdom suggests, genetically predisposed to dip their sex-obsessed pen in every well they can find? More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5505402&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Swan Song]]> Swans are usually the most monogamous of birds, but a flighty pair of "married" swans have reportedly split, returning from their annual migration with new (but fortunately not younger and blonder) mates in tow. [DailyMail] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5456338&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA["For Me, Pornography Is Performing": Sasha Grey On Sex, Work, Communication]]> Despite claims that her opinions are worthless because she does porn, Sasha Grey has a long and insightful interview with Dazed Digital about acting, relationships, sex, and prostitution. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5412733&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[K.D. Lang Does Romance]]> "I don't believe human beings are necessarily monogamous. I've always felt that in nature there's every example possible, from asexuality to omnisexual... But I'm very happy in mine, and I think age has a lot to do with it." [Guardian] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5328757&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Is Polyamory Not Such A Retarded Idea After All?]]> So like, sometimes I want to tell you guys about a story that's, like, too nuanced and complex to distill into a cynical one-liner. And then I think "pageviews!" and just skip it. But what the hell: it's about a small polyamory convention going down somewhere in exurban Pennsylvania, and it kind of — I know, I know — made me reexamine my prejudices (?) a bit. I mean, polyamory is one of those things it's all too easy to associated with, like, free-bleeding and Xena conventions and other subcultures too dorky, too fully occupied by people who are just too completely divorced from the desire for mainstream acceptance, to really want to examine in a way deeper than "not that there's anything wrong with that," right? But the story, while rife with harmless little digs at classes with names like "Hap-poly Ever After" and "Threesome, Foursome and Moresome," actually poses a striking question: is poyamory actually maybe a utopian ideal borne of a courageously humanistic mix of selflessness and pragmatism? More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=356240&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Some Couples Feel The Thrill Of First Love Their Whole Lives! But Probably Not You.]]> New uplifting/depressing scientific development! It is actually humanly possible to have a happy loving marriage not underscored by resignation and/or evolutionary biology and/or societal expectations and/ or financial entanglements! A bunch of neuroscientists at NYU have proven that it is possible that some couples actually stay in love. No shit, right? According to the Wall Street Journal they learned this by subjecting self-professed happy couples who had been married for ten years or so. The case study in question was Ann and Alan Tucker, whose persistent amorousness throughout their eleven year marriage them as romantic "outliers", to brain scans. And what they found was shocking:
Days after Mrs. Tucker's brain scan, Dr. Brown, the neuroscientist, sat in her book-lined office looking at the results. "Wow, just wow," she recalls thinking. Mrs. Tucker's brain reacted to her husband's photo with a frenzy of activity in the ventral tegmental area. "I was shocked," Dr. Brown says.
So who are these two horny old lovebirds? More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=354378&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Reader Roundup]]> Best Comment of the Day, in response to Animal Magnetisms: "OMG, [Knut's] the Britney Spears of the zoo circuit. Exploited and overexposed too young, driven mad by celebrity, his downward spiral documented internationally for a gossip-hungry public." We say: Gimme ROAR. • Worst, in response to Are Humans Built For Monogamy?: "Honestly, there has to be a way to paraphrase your conversations instead of (lazily, in my opinion) just posting an entire IM. It's impossible to follow. Also, doesn't this topic come up every couple of months? Is there anything new to say about it?" We say: Like we told the Mormon kids who protested about the heathen TV at Gold's Gym: Don't like it? Nobody's making you look. More »
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